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I don't see it that way at all. Those "new characters", even if temporary, were VERY important to the development of Carmela's character (school counselor: she's now had her heart broken, experienced some romance as a "single woman", and she feels she'll always be "tainted" by being Tony's ex), Tony B's character (the Korean: we now know Tony B. is back in the mob instead of going straight), Tony S. (the old lady reminded him how his dad "used" him as an alibi to his mom - and Tony might, just might see the consequences of his actions with his family through these flashbacks, as well as understand better his mother's bitterness), and Christopher (Tim Daly's role showed Christopher completely compartmentalizing his life - friend to a fellow addict one minute, loan shark mobster the next when he owed him money - and it brought back Christopher's time in rehab and his relapse - which some people wanted to see ongoing, I think)

Some "friend" the snooty prick PhD-doctor who had audiences with 4 popes turned out to be to Carmella's dad. (Nothing like raining on the guy's 75th BD parade by denigrating the present Tony gave him - guess he's got to burst others' balloons in order to make himself higher/more important.)

This was another good episode that sets up the NJ-NY war further, with Tony B in the middle (largely b/c of his resentment of all that Tony S has that he doesn't).

Also, this episode had more Meadow, less AJ - which is certainly a good thing, too.

*laugh* as someone who finds Season4 to be probably the best of the bunch so far (and, assuming by my thoughts elsewhere I may be in the minority This note caught me thinking about an ep from S4..

In the Columbus ep, the minister invited a speaker to the church who made a crack about "wise guys" and so on, Carm was incredibly offended and said "what are you going to do" when her friends went back and gave the minister a piece of their mind.

Yeah, Carm wants it both ways. She has to remind everyone what she does for them (like the church) but don't bring up how she got it to give it to them in the first place!

I thought this was a great episode. Tony is realizing more and more that he misses/needs Carm. When he reached out to the woman by offering her a cut of the track, he was willing to have a sit down with the NY family to get his "fair share" to give to her... and the way that turned out.. Tony may have some penance over that one.

Good to see them go back to the Christopher on drugs bit, and why he quit and concerns of him going back.. after the last episode, lots of people wondered if he had fallen off the wagon, this episode followed through on that pretty well.. he's having troubles, but maybe he can control them for now.

*laugh* seriously, for all of those who bag on the show "terrible" who don't like the family eps (which I tend to prefer) fine.. I seriously doubt the show needs "staunch defenders" there are lots of us who really enjoy it as is I definitely won't be getting up and turning the channel to watch any of the network crap on TV

Well, neither 24 or CSI competes with Sopranos on Sundays. As far as that goes, I really loved the first season of 24. The last two have been (IMHO) terrible. You talk about jumping the shark.. Alias was a show I never bought into, though I know many love it.
There are plenty of good network programs as well, but I think it's been a long time since I've seen programming as well written or thought out as "Sopranos" and "Six Feet Under"
There was a time when I felt ER really hit it's stride, and then it became "disaster of the week"; Law & Order, a continual favorite of mine, became overly repetitive with "ripped from the headlines" (which means: we lost creative thought, picked up a newspaper and copied with slight changes)
Are there shows on regular TV that I've found sensational? Yep. But right now, if you were to ask me what is "must watch" on regular TV.. with all the reality programming going on.. uh.. there isn't much.

Wow. I think you're missing the premise of the show. The first season was slower then this season, by a good leap, with many more episodes focused on panic attacks, birds, and getting mom to leave her home

The whole premise of the show from it's get go was "if one family doesn't get you, the other one will.." with the goal being that his family (personal) is as treacherous as the family (mob).. and the show has done a great job conveying that.

Anyway, this season has been absolutely on a roll, and I thought this weeks episode was very good. Brought back that Christopher is teetering off the bandwagon, and the need of Tony to villify his mother. Which were central concepts of the first season

One other thing, though.. I don't see how we can get to "Silvio & Paulie are wallpaper" we've had some eps that virtually revolved around them last season (Paulie talking to Johny Sack) and this season (Paulie getting back for the lawnmower incident) as well as Paulie & Christopher in NJ.

Not every episode can revolve around a few characters.. except for Tony I like the fact that each episode is something different and makes good use of the ensemble. It was good to see Hesch this week as well

Eh.. that's why I'm thinking the next meeting will be so bitter.. "I was vulnerable and you took advantage of me, and you left without saying anything.." good way to make her feel used.
I really liked the party bit, because it put it to Carmella that she has the same family issues that Tony has.. her mother resents their heritage and looks down on her choice of husband & kids.. the spiel on Meadow was excellent.
The incident regarding Tony B doing a job for NY crew, specifically taking sides -AGAINST- Johnny Sack by knocking out one of his bagmen.. damn. Tony S. has to be fearful of how that can play out, because it's all negative against him..

Can someone tell me if Tony B actually made the correct hit?
I thought he was supposed to take out some woman. That girl in the car (who had the name Heather I think) seemed like some random girl who was with the guy he shot. Didn't Frankie Vallie say "a woman'?

This has been the case for the entire series. The writers just don't know what to do with him. When he moved in with Tony, I thought for sure something was finally going to happen and maybe slowly get in to Tony's world but NOPE, he's back with Carmella again after two episodes.
Jeff

To me, this is the worst Sopranos episode I've ever seen. The writing was terrible with regards to Tony B making his "transition" back to the mob; it just wasn't believable. I'm hoping that later in the season we'll find out that the money he found was a setup to help rope him back in. If that's what was intended, then I'll at least give this a 3 out of 10. I think a lot of people here are being kind in praising this episode, IMO.
Jeff

I haven't seen this mentioned yet and this is another aspect of the episode I hated...The fact that Christopher and Adriana were together like nothing happened last week. I was really looking forward to seeing how Christopher was going to handle things with her, since he really beat her up, but nope. I know the time frame is different with their lives than with the weekly schedule but that was ridiculous. It would have been better not to have them in it and on some occasions it almost seems like one writer doesn't know what the other writer is doing on the show.